acute, concave. Capsule 3-sided, 3-celled, smooth and 

 glossy. Seeds few, small, somewhat flattened on one 

 side and convex on the other, of a yellowish brown 

 colour. 



This curious little plant is a native of Mexico, and 

 was raised from seed brought from that country by Mr. 

 Bullock, who parted with them to Mr. Tate, of the 

 Sloane Street Nursery, and from a plant raised by him, 

 the present figure was made : like all the other American 

 species that we have yet seen or heard of, it belongs to 

 the section Lecheoides of Decandolle : all the species of 

 which produce flowers with petals, in the Spring and 

 early in Summer, whereas all those that are produced 

 in Autumn,which are much more numerous, are all ape- 

 talous : the present plant has never produced its Spring 

 flowers with us, most probably by being killed back a 

 good way in Winter, so that it has had to make new 

 shoots for flowering, and those have always produced 

 their flowers in Autumn for three years following, they 

 have all been apetalous like those in our figure, but have 

 ripened seeds annually : if the plant was kept in an airy 

 part of the Greenhouse in Winter, or in the window of 

 a light room, so that its shoots might not be killed back, 

 it would most probably bear plenty of perfect flowers in 

 Spring, the same as H.polygaksfolium, H. brasiliense, H. 

 carolinianum, and the other American species ; it grows 

 freely in an equal mixture of turfy loam, peat, and sand ; 

 and young cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, in 

 Spring, root readily ; they may also be raised from seeds. 



